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  • "Monster rabbit" targets vegetable patch

    04/07/2006 9:05:02 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 150 replies · 21,042+ views
    Reuters ^ | Fri Apr 7, 06
    It sounds like a job for Wallace and Gromit. A "monster" rabbit has apparently been rampaging through vegetable patches in a small village in northern England, ripping up leeks, munching turnips and infuriating local gardeners. In an uncanny resemblance to the plot of the hit animated film "Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit," angry horticulturists in Felton, near Newcastle, have now mounted an armed guard to protect their prized cabbages and parsnips. "They call it the monster. It's very big -- it's nearly the size of a dog," said Joan Smith, whose son Jeff owns one of...
  • USS Jimmy Carter takes dive with namesake on board (Later resurfaces. No rabbits sighted)

    08/14/2005 2:48:09 PM PDT · by presidio9 · 102 replies · 1,820+ views
    Former President Jimmy Carter today completed his first submarine dive since he left the Navy in 1953, but this time it was in a new nuclear vessel bearing his name. The USS Jimmy Carter pulled into this Navy submarine base after a night of cruising below the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the Georgia coast. Carter was accompanied by his wife, Rosalynn, and a crew of 151. For Mrs. Carter, the boat's sponsor, it was her first submarine dive. The submarine is the first named after a living ex-president. Carter was a submariner during his time in the Navy...